Disco Technology Through the Ages

Diamond Disco has been around in the form of a Mobile Disco in Cornwall since the 70's.

It's owner has seen a lot of changes within that time. Starting out with the old Citronic Hawaii twin decks, that played the old 45's with usually a two pence piece on the stylus because someone clever on the dance floor had worked out where the loose floor board was on the dance floor, and used it to such creativity, making the record jump in time with the music. Then we done some modifications to the "decks" with some thick foam underneath to absorb the vibrations, and I must say that worked fairly well.

Fast forwarding to the mid 1990's saw the transition from vinyl to "mini disc" It was decided that that was the way technology was going and at that time the only way to record all your vinyl records (there were thousands) was on to a stand alone mini disc player. So then Mr Smarty pants could jump up and down on the loose floorboards as much as he liked. This was about a year or two before the recordable C.D. player "doh".

Jumping right up to the present day and for the last two years now I have been using MP 3's from my "laptop". The old mini disc player has gone to Ebay heaven along time since, and I have at last found the easiest system for finding the title of a song in my extensive record collection No more breaking my back trawling through C.D. upon C.D. I am right where the action is up and centre, so there is no excuse not to comment on Aunty Betty doing the "conga" on her own and desperately looking for any poor passer by to join her.

"Good Stuff" technology, I love it.

David Carne
owner and DJ of a Mobile Disco in Cornwall
http://diamonddisco.biz

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